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THE PILOT
Friday, May 14, 1926.
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dency has been growing up of
late to deal in that type of lan
guage that gets away from de
cent argument and into a bill
ingsgate that is of no benefit in
any way to anybody, and The
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instrument which shall give
vent to any such stuff.
Men have honest differences
of opinion, and are to be respiKt-
ed and esteemed for those dif
ferences and to be encouraged
in their views. But to criti
cise opinions does not require a
lot of gutter language that re
fers to others as fools, liars,
grafters, crooks, fiends, or any
thing of the sort, nor which fails
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cerity and others character as
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sewage plants, secured the va
rious paraphernalia that makes
a community keep step with
progress, and when the bunch
announced that its task was ac
complished and it was ready to
turn over the administration to
others the people said no.
That was one of the interest
ing things about this campaign.
Richardson declined to be a can
didate, and the people nominat
ed him at the caucus and per
mitted no other name to come
before it. Then they named
the old board of commissioners,
and while two or three other
names crept in the old timers
were held on the ticket, and it
was elected without opposition
at the election Tuesday. The
election was not an election. It
was a ratification meeting of
what everybody appeared to ap
prove.
The vote at the election was
small, and that was a compli
ment to the ticket, for it was
concession to the fact that Sam
Richardson and his council had
no opposition, and it was ap
proximately a case of where the
secretary is instructed to cast
the vote of the meeting for the
candidate. The bunch deserved
this unanimous vote, for it has
been a great pioneering influ
ence in making Southern Pines,
and in that way making the
Sandhills.
THE SOUTHERN
PINES ELECTION
The election last week at
Gouthern Pines is of more than
ordinary significance to this
whole section, for it emphasizes
the wisdom of progress. It is
not merely a Southern . Pines
affair, nor a personal matter
with the men who have been
chosen to direct public welfare
in our neighbor village, for it is
the experssion of the course that
village is to follow in the com
ing year, and what Southern
Pines does is reflected in every
other community in the Sand
hills. The truth is that South
ern Pines has become practical
ly the leader and the central
influence, and we all stand or
fall more or less with the fate
of that town. Therefore a re
sponsible and broad administra
tion there is of vital concern to
every residen of Moore county.
Sam Richardson has been the
most aggressive and progressive
leader that Southern Pines ever
had. He had the nerve to back
up what seemed tremendous ad
vances in town improvement and
his council stood by him. They
worked together, and they have
made Southern Pines a model
rural village in many respects.
They paved the streets, built one
of the most modern water and
ORDERLY MARKETING
AND PRODUCTION
Several things are working to
gether to bring to the surface
the efforts of farmers to im
prove the marketing condition
of their products. Congress is
considering a subsidy, under
another name, the farmers are
trying to make co-operative
marketing work, and various
specifics are offered to help turn
the trick. But with all of the
remedies proposed the farmer
overlooks the one big difficulty
in that he continues to plant a
big crop regardless of the desire
of the buyer to have as much as
is produced. No plans in the
world can ever be devised that
will hold up the selling prices if
the crop is to be continually in
creasing or bigger than the de
mands of the buyer call for. For
high prices stimulate increasing
crops and increased production
offers so much more that pro
ducers compete wih each other
for the market and that reduces
prices.
That is so clearly understood
that it is curious the farmers
go on figuring all the time in
maintaining prices but overlook
ing the absolute destruction of
high prices if production is too
great. At a high price buyers
will take less and at a low price
they will take more. A high
price narrows the market and a
low price broadens it. We are
all agents in bringing about this
condition. Every one of us will
buv m:re at low prices than at
high prices, and as the market
is the mass of population each
of us by his buying contributes
to fixing the market price. There
are no ifs about these things.
We buy more freely when the
price suits us than when it is
too high, and that makes pro
ducts move more freely when
prices are down.
The farm problem is one of
the most difficult industrial prob
lems in the world for farms are
so many and the relations be
tween one farm and another are
so indefinite that farmers can
not well arrange to produce a
crop that will fit the demand.
Then w^eather conditions enter
to such an extent that no plans
could be worked out. So the
farmer 4)lants his crop and takes
the chances like any other good
gambler. No other plan seems
possible. But the farmer faces
one difficulty that is not fair,
and that is the tariff system
which makes the things he buys
artificially high as compared
with what he sells. He canmt
have a tariff on what he makes
as his competitor is his neigh
bor, not a foreigner. It is the
competition of farmer against
farmer for the market that
makes farm prices lower than
prices of other commodities, and
the artificial stimulus given
other things by tariff that make
what the farmer buys higher
than what he sells. He sells in
an open market, and buys in a
restricted market, and he gets
the short end of the stick in
this manner.
We muddle through in spite of
our absurd practices of penaliz
ing the farmer, but it is hard on
the farmer, and will be as long
as he is the victim of a one-sided
game in which he can nevjer hope
to share the pickings. In fact
on the day when he might share
the pickings there would be
none, for he is the fellow who
is picked, and he could not get
very far ahead skinning him.self.
THE LENGTHENING
SEASON
The season at the resorts
closes his year with a bang, for
the Shriner’s meeting is one of
the biggest assemblages ever
seen in Moore county. Pine-
hurst is lengthening the season,
and in making it longer is in
creasing the attendance at both
ends, spring and fall. The con
vention idea is an addition to
the resources of the Sandhills,
for it brings visitors at times
when the winter guest has fin
ally pulled out for the colder re
gions, and when the neighbor
hood would otherwise be be
tween hay and grass.
The conventions bring to the
Sandhills a great many people
and extend the business period
by affording a market for more
of the things that are here to be
offered. An example is found
in the continuing call for eggs
for an illustration, and the farm
ers have seen the opportunity in
this direction brought away into
the middle of May, and no less
ening of the noisy call. Also
other products of the farm and
garden are in demand, and at
prices that bring money.
This extension of the season,
and the habit of turning to the
Sandhills as the place to hold
conventions means that gradual
ly the winter resort is expand
ing its year length that it is not
so improbable that hotels and
other attractions will in time be
able to carry on throughout the
entire year, at least in certain
numbers if not all of .them.
Moore county, with its many in
teresting features and its agree
able natural resources and sur
roundings is worth while so
many days of the year that it
is easy to believe that as people
know the summer better they
will stay for more of the sum
mer and more of the winter res
idents will stay as all the year
residents. This is becoming
the practice as northern folks
realize that it is more comfort
able to locate here permanently
and have a summer vacation in
the North than to have a con
tinued home in the North and a
vacation season in the South.
Then the country convenient to
Moore county affords all the
variation of summer outing that
many care for, for the moun
tains are but a few hours dis
tant from the Sandhills, and the
North Carolina mountains are
thoroughly up to date in every
thing now. Gradually we are
moving forward.
ROARING GAP FOR
A SUMMER OUTING
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ard Tufts under the management of
Edward Fitgerald, and a bunch of the
other Pinehurst folks, which needs no
further detail as to its desirability as
a place to put up at. Golf and that
sort of thing is there for those who
like it, but the great thing to me is
that tremendous big mountain, stand
ing above everything else that can
be seen for miles, crowned with the
original forest, the dense jungles of
rhododendron, the mountain streams
and the drives and walks, the big lake
of fifty acres that is to be filled with
the famous Loch Leven trout, origi
nally from Loch Leven in Scotland,
there in the mountains a short day’s
journey from the ancient golf terri
tory of St. Andrews. Those going
up to Roaring Gap before the hotel
is open can find accommodation at El
kin a few miles down the mountain at
an excellent hotel in one of the most
delightful villages of the state. Or
possiby “Miss Alice” Smith, who has
a homey ol^ farm house on the moun
tain, will look out for the traveler as
she did for me, and her house is much
to be favored if she has room for more
—a matter that sometimes is not the
case. I do not he,sitate to recom
mend the Roaring Gap trip to any one
who likes the mountains, for from
the time the traveler leaves home in
the Sandhills until he returns the
whole journey is one of continuing in
terest. The route is by Asheboro,
Winston-Salem, Yadkinville and El
kin, and not a tireless mile on the
way. Then with the Pinehurst folks
there to tell you the neighborhood gos
sip it has the atmosphere of home
about it. With Eddie Fitzgerald,
Gordon Cameron, Pete Pender, Frank
Maples and those boys showing up
here and there around the mountain
you feel as if you belong there.
Cynic: One who suggests that if
we grow our own rubber the price
would probably still be kept up with
a 75-cent protective tariff.—Detroit
News.
FOR SALE—At half cost or less, sev
eral Poultry feeding hoppers. Var
ious styles and sizes. Further dis
count on the lot. L. A. Gould, 10 S.
May St., Southern Pines. 7-14P
NOTICE
FOR
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Listing Taxes
Notice is hereby given to all persons in this Township that
they must list their Property and Poll Taxes during the month of
May, as required by law. I can be found at the time and places
mentoned below:
At Vass on the 22, 29, 31 Days of May,
At Southern Pines on the 10,11,12,13,14,15, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 Days
of May
A Clay Road (Morning) on the 17 Day of May,
At Lakeview and Eureka on the 18, 21 Days of May,
At Niagara and Manley on the 19,20 Days of May.
After above^ dates the Tax List for this Township will be
closed.-— Attention is also called to the fact, that
Failing to List Will Result in
Your Being Doubled Taxed
You are required by law to meet the List Taker at the above
nam^"^ places and dates,
FARM CENSUS—EaciJ farm owner or his agent is to come
prepared to report the acreage of each crop to be harvested on his
or his tenants’ farms this year. Also acres cultivated, lying out,
number of bearing fruit trees, and the tons of fertilizer used for
all crops Prepare your list now..... This Farm Census is requir
ed by State law, but is not for taxation purposes.
Respectfully,
W. D. MATTHEWS, List Taker
For McNEILL TOWNSHIP.
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